Death by a thousand cuts as universities revoke international offers "en masse" of prospective students from Bangladesh, Nigeria and Pakistan to avoid losing ability to recruit international students. More job losses and course closures predicted in consequence. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

UK universities withdraw offers from international students to avoid blanket ban

Pullback comes in response to doubling in number of study visas being refused by the Home Office in the first six months of 2026

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New book cover just dropped Thank you @mcfarland.bsky.social

Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps

Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools

Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.

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41% staffing cuts in the Faculty of Arts at UoN. We're entering a wilderness of creativity and critical thinking.

Made Lisa play too much Crash Team Racing. It's ruined Mario Kart for her.

Sheffield’s film industry: an asset to be cherished Sheffield’s film industry brings enormous cultural and economic value, but its future depends on continued investment By Katherine Sansom

Sheffield’s film industry: an asset to be cherished

Sheffield’s film industry brings enormous cultural and economic value, but its future depends on continued investment

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An 87 ft Tory version of the Bayeux Tapestry - which either has a terrible designer who forgot where arms and legs should go, or is designed by AI - really sums up the fact that we are addicted to cults

tried Dragon Age: The Veilguard - didn't get hugely far because DA isn't really my thing and a few project deadlines hit. I will pick it back up again, but the wild discourse around it has been weird for a game that's very BioWare with themes and mostly just okay

Flying is officially on course to account for *almost all* the UK's carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. Heathrow expansion alone would cause more carbon emissions by 2054 than *any other sector of the economy*. So why is it being contemplated? My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The expansion of Heathrow would be an expensive disaster for Britain and the world. Burnham needs to block it | George Monbiot

A third runway would fly in the face of reason. If we are to prioritise human life over short-term ‘growth’, we need to use planes less, not more, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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A gut-punch of a statistic, reflective of what's happening throughout the entire natural world. But using the word "stocks" to describe a wild population of one of Earth's most breathtaking, magical species indicates precisely why we've reached such a predicament. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

Ireland’s wild Atlantic salmon stocks down 80% since 1970s

Public consultation launched amid fears ‘iconic species’ could be lost entirely from Irish rivers

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We've made the Tamagotchi evil.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w ago

“Everyone hates cameras in smart glasses. But if the camera is contained in a charm you wear around your neck, it shifts the agency. Suddenly, you’re not recording people. It’s just a cute little animated avatar looking out on the world.”

Finally finished 70 Up. What an extraordinary series. Possibly the best of British TV

Xbox is laying off 268 people today across Halo Studios, first-party, and management and Ninja Theory is entering consultation as the division's big "reset" continues. https://kotaku.com/xbox-reset-268-laid-off-ninja-theory-halo-activision-2000736434

Xbox Lays Off 268 As 'Reset' Continues

Halo will now be developed by Activision, while 343 retains a small support team for existing games

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Add the 15,000 lay offs in academia (so far) that the news is happy to ignore in favour of talking about Mickey Mouse courses/careers

Willard Foxton@willardfoxton.bsky.social · 3w ago

I think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed. 25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it! Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess.

Silent Hill: Townfall is a challenging and terrifying game about wrestling with the weight of our decisions. The move to 1st person works well and the CRTV mechanics are implemented in really smart ways, but stealth can be frustrating at times. My full review: templeofgeek.com/silent-hill-...

Silent Hill: Townfall Review

Silent Hill: Townfall by Screen Burn Interactive is a challenging, terrifying game about the weight of our decisions.

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Making it more difficult to go to university or get an apprenticeship. Labour creating its own NEET crisis to appease Reform voters. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Only 160 apprenticeship starts in eight months on Labour’s flagship scheme

Exclusive: Government warned ‘skills revolution’ at risk amid slow start to project with target of 30,000 starts by end of parliament

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The BBC reports that University of Brighton may close a campus- but little said on threats to pull out of the union, and tear up the national agreement which protects workloads, contract status, job titles, maternity and sick leave www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

University of Brighton considers closing Falmer campus by 2030

The campus houses the university's library, sports and health complex, and two halls of residence.

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Edinburgh University may cut 90 courses - including Scottish Literature. 1800 jobs at risk. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2655944...

Full list of the 90 programmes earmarked for closure at leading Scottish university

Managers say the cuts are necessary “to protect our world-leading reputation and resilience in research and teaching” but staff members have hit…

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We are living in Night City

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 4w ago

What the actual.

A university that predominantly provides higher education to working class (young and older!) adults will go bust, and more will follow as loans are called in and banks panic. The visa restrictions and funding model have unis in freefall. When they go down, entire towns and cities will go down too.

This is the most shamefully soft-soaped coverage of these thugs that you could possibly imagine. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Anti-migrant activists like Danny Tommo are changing tactics

Patriot Platform wants to build a group of working-class voters to influence political parties on the right.

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DfE considering exemptions from international student levy. Higher education groups welcome “sensible” move but say policy should be scrapped entirely. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

DfE ‘considering’ exemptions from international student levy - Research Professional News

Higher education groups welcome “sensible” move but say policy should be scrapped entirely

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Maybe we should Google “Brad Pitt + abusive” to learn more.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last mo.

Inglourious baristas: why is Brad Pitt making coffee for 16 abusive dogs?

Japanese military's first overseas firefighting mission...

Japan to Send 3 Helicopters to Help Indonesia Battle Wildfires

Japan will send three CH-47 helicopters and about 600 personnel to help Indonesia fight forest fires, in its first overseas firefighting mission.

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Wow. Watch Channel 4 News now Nigel Farage discussing elicit funding for reform U.K. from a foreign donor All on secret camera

Me: I think I'll install the new Dragon Age and finally try it Me, later:

This...just isn't what terrorism is?

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · last mo.

Alleged vandalism on Trump golf course linked to terrorism, Scottish prosecutors say ft.trib.al/J2It2tf

Dolly Parton, US country star, actor and philanthropist, dies aged 80

Dolly Parton, US country star, actor and philanthropist, dies aged 80

Songwriter of I Will Always Love You, Jolene and 9 to 5 also invested millions in child literacy, Covid-19 vaccine development and other causes Dolly Parton, one of the greatest singer-songwriters in country music who was also much cherished for her philanthropy, has died aged 80. Her death was announced by nephew Brian Seaver on Instagram. Continue reading...

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Burnham - bad for Britain, bad for the planet www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Two planned datacentres will have higher UK carbon emissions than ExxonMobil, analysis finds

Exclusive: Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire sites predicted to emit 4.5m tonnes a year when fully running

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Climate damage would obliterate any economic benefits of new North Sea fields, analysis shows

Exclusive: Economic harm of CO2 pollution from Rosebank and Jackdaw forecast to far outweigh any boost to UK

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